Sand was drawn onto the ice during the winter, so that it could settle and furnish a better bottom for the bathers. Report of the Park Commission, 1905. |
Neighboring town photos for April - Forge Park station - Franklin. |
Sunday News real estate section. Below - A colonial according to a book on early American life. |
Hopedale in April 2014 Hopedale history ezine for April 1 - Gov. Eben Sumner Draper Ezine for April 15 - Dogwood and Shuttles Recent Pictures Menu HOME . |
April 1 - My first paddle on Hopedale Pond this year. The edge was open up to about where the wood begin and after that it was pretty much all free of ice. |
April 1 - Here's another sign of warm weather - a crocus popping up near the corner of Hopedale and Social streets. |
A comfort station here is in process of erection. Report of the Park Commissioners, 1912 |
Peering into the Draper plant. |
Town Park - April 3 |
How it once looked in there. |
Hopedale Pond - ice nearly gone. |
And by April 4, it was gone. At least it was gone according to the old Draper standard - no ice in sight from the Freedom Street end of the shop. The last time ice lasted into April was 2005 when it was gone by the second. Click here for more on iceout dates. |
Back at it at the Country Club - April 4. |
Thanks to my son, DJ, for these pictures of the Engine33/Ladder 15 station that he took a few days after the Boston fire of March 26 in which two of the firemen from this station died. |
Sunday in the park - April 6. |
Rita Sullivan, center, in black, was honored at the senior center at the Community House on April 9 with a presentation of the Boston Post cane. In a tradition started by the Boston Post in 1909, the cane is given to a town's oldest resident. Rita will turn 100 in June.
In 1909, under the savvy ownership of Edwin A. Grozier, the Boston Post engaged in its most famous publicity stunt. The paper had several hundred ornate, gold-tipped canes made and contacted the selectmen in New England's largest towns. The Boston Post Canes were given to the selectmen and presented in a ceremony to the town's oldest living man. The custom was expanded to include a community's oldest woman in 1930. Many towns in New England still carry on the Boston Post cane tradition with the original canes they were awarded in 1909. Wikipedia |
Bancroft Library girls' knitting group and Atria-Draper Place knitters get together at Draper Place - April 7. |
Town Park - April 11. |
Friends of Elders shop at the Town Hall. |
Waiting to run for the Easter eggs - April 12. |
Click here to see Helene at her "Lilliputian wedding" twelve years earlier |
G& U track work near the Sacred Heart Church parking lot. As you can see, unlike the work done on the section between Hopedale and Upton, here they've removed the existing tracks and will be totally replacing them. Raising the often-hit bridge was the rumor I heard as the reason |
A little snow on the ground to wake up to on the morning of April 16. |
Wow, that's a lot of ants. I wonder if they ever say, in ant language of course, "Hey, quit yer shovin'." |
Not a common plant pairing - daffodils and skunk cabbage, along the Parlkands entrance road from Dutcher Street - April 21. |
Rustic Bridge ripple reflections. |
Another day, looking upstream this time.. Reflections under the bridge on April 25. |